That's roughly equivalent to the annual heat-trapping emissions from 33 average-sized coal-fired power plants.
and their juice is full of good electrolytes. This can even help prevent heat stroke. Digestion The watermelon contains fiber
The first is that the state's Water Resources Control board is updating its Bay Delta Water Quality Plan.
Wesselman said that probably the most efficient route for reaching the Water Resources Control board's ear is to pressure the state's governor Jerry brown who appoints the board.
</p><p>The California Water Resources Control board is drafting a plan for the management of the San Joaquin
Sodium and potassium which are found in potato peels are two important electrolytes and athletes lose them in sweat.
Electrolytes are necessary for optimum body function and having too few can cause cramps as many athletes know.
This crush happened in the face of considerable resistance in some quarters of the Chinese government
Plugs of rock The new research may not surprise anyone with a green thumb. Gardeners know plants require the right combination of soil nutrients such as nitrogen
The granite's chemical boundaries mark different plutons or plugs of magma that cooled underground.
About 60 percent of the city's population has settled in traditional Mongolian tents called gers forming massive ger districts without paved roads electricity sanitation or running water.
Gut microbes very plausibly play a role in host resistance to these things and also in improving nutrition.
Antibiotic resistance Moran's research has revealed that bacteria in the guts of honeybees are highly resistant to the preventive antibiotic tetracycline probably the result of decades of exposure to it because of its use by beekeepers to prevent bacterial diseases.
Moran's team identified eight different tetracycline resistance genes among U s. honeybees that were exposed to the antibiotic
The antibiotic resistance study was an early hint about the dynamic nature of these genomes she adds.
And the gut microbiota of U s. honeybees is a treasure trove of tetracycline resistance genes that have been transferred horizontally from other bacteria.
According to our analysis at Energy Innovation the methane missing from the EPA's inventory in terms of the contribution to global warming over a 20-year time period would be equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions of 252 coal power plants.
#Most Interesting Science News articles of the Week From a melted road at Yellowstone to growling seahorses a medieval case of downs syndrome to Nikola Tesla's birthday here are some of the coolest stories in Science this week.
Researchers believe these are the beginning signs of the flipping of the magnetic poles yet it is weakening faster than expected.
Seahorses Don't Neigh They Growl Celebrating Tesla's birthday: The eccentric Nikola Tesla would have been 158-years-old this week.
How better to celebrate than to debate Tesla versus Edison? Full Story: Nikola Tesla vs.
Thomas Edison: Who Was the Better Inventor? A strawberry cervix?!While invoking not-so-delightful images food references in medical vernacular are useful aids in helping doctors identify many different ailments.
Full Story: Strawberry Cervix? Doc Reviews Food Words Used in Medicine Hypersexuality in women linked to this:
and Europe lice have developed resistance to some of the most common pediculicides found in both over-the-counter and prescription lice treatments.
If no resistance to insecticides is suspected the AAP recommends using products that contain pediculicides known as pyrethrins or the chemical permethrin.
#Maxwell House coffee grounds and a wall of magnetic poetry(#oenuzzle me bad#.#You ll hear constant jokes like it s a fish-eat-fish world#while reading daunting titles on the bookshelves:
See the Aerial Images of'Lost'Archaeological Sites in New england New englanders have known long about these relics of the agricultural past.
New biological pacemaker In healthy people a small region of the heart called the sinoatrial node fires the electrical impulses that determine heart rate.
Such patients may have electronic pacemakers put in to monitor the heart rhythm which sends electrical pulses to keep the heart beating normally.
but new bulbs do a better job of mimicking the sun. The lights use less electricity
We're using 40 percent less electricity to get the same results Khalatbari said. Lights are a major area of change in the new legal growing operations said Denver Relief cofounder Nick Hice.
One solution the scientists support is the U s. Environmental protection agency (EPA)' s recent proposal to limit power-plant carbon pollution.
Given that coal was responsible for 53 percent of the electricity generated in Montana last year
and an electricity supplier to generate 15 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2015 a relatively modest goal.
Late last month a state legislative committee issued a draft report concluding that Montana's standard has been an economic success. It created new jobs bolstered rural county development had a negligible impact on electric rates and cut
and the fact that Montana has the third best wind resources in the country that could meet more than 240 times the state's current electricity demand the legislative committee recommended that the renewable requirement remain at 15 percent.
Genetically modified organisms have been altered through genetic engineering to promote certain traits such as drought resistance in corn or herbicide resistance in rice.
Experiments and numerical models revealed that once a critical weight from the higher parts of the sandstone was reached the downward force locked the lower grains of sand together more tightly increasing their resistance to erosion.
Recently more and more studies have focused on pairing solar panels and wind turbines with greenhouses to provide self-generated renewable electricity on-site.
But the single technology that will be key to making vertical farms possible is lighting. New LED light technology is the key that makes it possible to build vertically integrated farms.
and using a lower supply voltage (6-24v) that makes it safer to work with
Evidence is emerging that specific wavelengths of light have distinct effects on crop yield quality and even pest and disease resistance.
The next Generation which restored his damaged vision by detecting electromagnetic signals and transmitting them to an implant in his brain wearables are being created to assist people who are disabled.
With each cleansing you are flushing away beneficial bacteria and electrolytes. Nearly 1000 species of bacteria reside in the colon
Insulin resistance may be improved greatly when people consume a half of a fresh grapefruit before meals according to a 2006 study in the Journal of Medicinal Food.
and nutritional powerhouse an apple a day really may keep the doctor away. Here are the nutrition facts from the U s. Food and Drug Administration
Despite their resistance and their huge storage capacity there is a threshold. Are we going to reach that?
</a p><p></p><p>A 42-year old electrician in California developed star-shaped cataracts in his eyes after a serious work-related accident caused electricity to run through his body according to a new
</p><p>The man's left shoulder came into contact with 14000 volts of electricity
and an electric current passed through his entire body including the optic nerve the nerve that connects the back of the eye to the brain.</
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or plants that are resistant to a greener herbicide there are legitimate problems such as weeds acquiring the GM herbicide resistance.
#Once Endangered, Bald eagle Populations Soar Bryan Watts is director of the Center for Conservation Biology a joint program of the College of William & Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Watts contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. When Mitchell Byrd took over the annual bald-eagle survey for the state of Virginia disco was king the Dow jones Industrial Average was just over 800
Watts's most recent Op-Ed Was wanted: Osprey Watchers as Citizen-Scientists. The views expressed are those of the author
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention each year in the United states at least two million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics
But one type of bacteria usually only develops resistance to one or two types of phages
The thinner ice shelves offer less resistance making it easier for glaciers to bulldoze their way toward the sea.
Evidence for this growth was published first in 1963 progressively older magnetic stripes on the seafloor record spreading away from the volcanic ridges.
or exposure in Beijing#during the Beijing Olympics when the Chinese government temporarily closed polluting power plants Kensler said.
and disease resistance and their hardiness short stature and gentle temperaments will make them prime candidates for a variety of terrains and conditions.</
#Dixon s northwest New mexico homestead has neither electricity nor running water. She and her sheep breathe the coal dust blowing in the warm dry air across the desiccated late-winter landscape where the brush of the desert floor appeared as lifeless as the dirt underfoot.
And that means residents here especially those without the water and electricity taken for granted elsewhere are exposed more to intense heat
About 38 percent of Navajo residents lack electricity and running water which threatens lives during heat waves that scientists say could intensify in the coming years.
The monounsaturated fats can help stop insulin resistance which helps to regulate blood sugar levels. Furthermore the soluble fiber in avocados can help keep blood sugar levels steady
Potassium is a mineral electrolyte that keeps electricity flowing throughout your body which is required to keep your heart beating in the proper way
They are packed with potassium a mineral electrolyte that keeps electricity flowing throughout your body which is required to keep your heart beating.
which includes a sharp uptick in methane-belching power plants starting around 2000 doesn't show up Dlugokencky said.
Low magnesium levels may worsen insulin resistance which leads to uncontrolled blood sugar But insulin resistance may also lead to low magnesium.
Both situations may also be true where diabetes leads to low magnesium and in turn low magnesium worsens diabetes according to the NIH.
Instead this type of aerial gunning as it is called has a single goal: to wipe out as many predators in an area as possible in the hopes of artificially inflating big-game populations that humans like to hunt
But much of the trapping poisoning and aerial gunning is done to benefit livestock and hunting interests.
In 1903 Thomas Edison demonstrated the power of electricity by attaching wires to Topsy the Elephant then throwing the switch
#CO2 Monitoring Could Be based'Space'in Future The measurement of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants
Using satellites to measure atmospheric concentrations of climate change-fueling carbon dioxide originating from coal-fired power plants could help verify other countries claims about their emissions of greenhouse gases helping regulators in the U s
and compare emissions from the San juan Generating Station with those of the Four Corners Generating Station two large coal-fired power plants in northwest New mexico near the city of Farmington.
By using remote sensors on the ground to measure the carbon emissions from two of the Southwest s largest coal-fired power plants the study published in May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrated the strategy
For example coal accounts for 70 percent of energy used in China today primarily for electricity production
Beyond the demonstration of possible satellite-based greenhouse gas detection technology the Los alamos study had some surprising results about the two New mexico power plant s emissions.
The study found that 70 to 75 percent of the regional atmosphere within about 6 miles of the power plants is polluted with their emissions.
and mainly linked to the power plants. The U s. Environmental protection agency is releasing a proposed rule on June 2 that is expected to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal-fired power plants including the two New mexico plants included in the Los alamos study.
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Potassium an electrolyte mineral is vital for allowing electricity to flow through your body which keeps your heart beating.
We are beginning to learn that the genetic diversity of keystone species such as common tree species is very important for the resistance of an ecosystem to disturbance as well as its ability to bounce back after disturbance.
Vitamin a is an antioxidant powerhouse and beta-carotene has been linked to anti-aging benefits cancer prevention and helping maintain good eyesight.
Potassium is also an important electrolyte that helps regulate your heartbeat. Controlling blood sugar and maintaining energy For as sweet as they are sweet potatoes have a low glycemic index (sugar amount).
Despite some resistance to such research, it isn't going to go away, he says, and nor should it.
One problem is that breeders have relied traditionally on disease-resistance genes that are very effective
Increasingly, breeders are turning to a class of defence gene with a broader spectrum of resistance.
or work out how it confers resistance to fungal diseases. This week in Science, Beat Keller of the University of Zurich in Switzerland, Evans Lagudah of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra
The gene encodes a protein that is similar to molecular transporters that have been implicated in drug resistance.
researchers have found that the gene can enhance the resistance found in some varieties4. Lagudah says that breeders are pursuing this finding in hopes of generating Ug99-resistant varieties of wheat.
and public reluctance about transgenic crops is likely to keep transgenic approaches off the table for some time.
The team has used zinc fingers to replace a gene called IPK1 with an herbicide-resistance gene.
WHO antiviralresistance 20090708/en/index. html>says the three incidences of drug resistant H1n1 to date are sporadic cases of resistance.
At this time, there is no evidence to indicate the development of widespread antiviral resistance among pandemic H1n1 viruses.
while providing a boost to vehicles powered by natural gas and electricity.
Research for development: Nature Newschris Whitty became head of research at the UK Department for International Development last month.
Nature Newsvehicles propelled by biomass-fired electricity would travel farther on a given crop and produce fewer greenhouse-gas emissions than vehicles powered by ethanol,
Burning biomass to produce electricity is generally more efficient than converting it into ethanol. And electric vehicles although often more expensive to make
and maintain than many vehicles with internal combustion engines are also more efficient at converting that energy into motion.
We expected that electricity would look better than corn ethanol, but it was surprising to see that this was also the case for the more advanced second-generation ethanols,
In all cases, the electricity pathway uses a lot less land to achieve the same amount of transportation.
suggests that, on average, an electric vehicle powered by biomass will travel 81%farther than an internal-combustion vehicle powered by cellulosic ethanol
which include electric transport. By contrast, US fuel policy is focused on biofuels. The federal mandate ramps up from 9 billion gallons of biofuels in 2008 (compared with almost 138 billion gallons of gasoline) to 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2022.
but made no provision for electric transport. However, there are proposals to deploy something like California's low carbon fuel standard at the national level.
Jeremy Martin, a senior researcher at the WASHINGTON DC office of the Union of Concerned Scientists, says it's too early to tell how successful electric vehicles will be or
particularly given their reluctance to accept mandatory emissions targets. But existing unilateral actions may have a larger impact than many realize.
which is currently being finalized, is a programme that could produce upward of 20,000 megawatts of solar power by 2020,
Insects can become resistant to individual insecticides in much the same way as bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics.
and to delay resistance. For example, next year, Monsanto, a US agricultural products company based in St louis,
As a result, mutations that confer resistance to both toxins were thought to be unlikely, says Bruce Tabashnik, an entomologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
it's not going to give cross resistance to Cry2ab. But when Tabashnik and his colleagues tried to selectively breed insects that were resistant to Cry2ab
and there has been no sign of Cry1ac resistance emerging in the insects. Tabashnik wanted to learn more about how insects may become resistant to the less-studied Cry2ab protein,
A change in the protease responsible for activating the toxins could provide an avenue to cross-resistance,
The results show that cross-resistance between the two toxins is possible. But this does not pose a threat for control by the current pyramided Bt cotton of this insect Tabashnik says.
whether that resistance can be obtained in the field. Nevertheless, the results do highlight the continued threat of resistance,
adds Tabashnik. Pyramids are not a panacea, he says. Evolution by insects is not something that scientists are going to stop.
or electricity generation will have the biggest impact on landscape and habitats. The broad analysis of potential US energy and climate-mitigation scenarios compared the land
The country last year withdrew access to the 40-megawatt Arak reactor, which is currently under construction
producing electricity and a range of nuclear isotopes, including plutonium. Iran denies that the reactor has a military purpose.
On 20 august, Australia's parliament approved laws that require the country to produce 20%of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 up from around 8%today.
as the cost of solar panels plummeted in the first half of 2009 (see also Nature 460,677;
which guarantee a set price for each unit of electricity supplied by a solar provider,
saw the country install 2. 7 gigawatts of solar capacity in 2008; the Spanish government has capped now the amount of solar power eligible for this tariff at 0. 5 gigawatts.
As the recession continues to bite, venture-capital investment in solar companies has fallen. Analyst Dallas Kachan, managing director of Cleantech Group, headquartered in Brighton,
says the USGS. Coal-fired power plants are the main source of mercury reaching US waterways.
but Fukuoka and his colleagues have shown that resistance and bad taste can be teased apart2. The team cloned a gene called Pi21,
Fukuoka's group crossed the resistance gene into a tastier breed and mapped the foul flavour to a point a few thousand nucleotides downstream of the Pi21 gene,
and tend to lose their impact as pests acquire resistance. European and US researchers, headed by Theodoor Turlings, a chemical ecologist from the University of Neuch ¢tel in Switzerland
It uses lithium iron phosphate in the cathodes, and is currently in a patent dispute with the University of Texas in Austin,
Beachy worked on virus resistance in plants, and later collaborated closely with Monsanto, the leading producer of genetically engineered seed, on transgenic crops.
which could be expanded to include broader greenhouse gas regulations for industrial sources such as power plants and heavy industry.
and parts of the Andes such as Bolivia that have resistance, says potato breeder John Bradshaw of the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Dundee, UK.
What has happened is after taking 15 years to incorporate this resistance in a cultivar it would take Phytophthora infestans only a couple of years to defeat it.
I would hope that some clever plant pathologist would be able to genetically engineer resistance.
Germany's new coalition government will extend the lifespan of the nation's nuclear power plants which last year produced around 23%of the country's electricity needs beyond 2022.
The US Environmental protection agency (EPA) has agreed to set new rules governing emissions of mercury and other toxic chemicals from power plants by November 2011,
recycling and power supply, was responsible for more than half of the rise. Venture-capital funding in this sector grew by 89%from the previous quarter to $898 million in 57 deals.
$286 million to Solyndra of Fremont (photovoltaics), $82. 5 million to Tesla Motors of San Carlos (electric vehicles) and $60 million to Serious Materials in Sunnyvale (energy-efficient building materials.
and caused the plants to produce a protein inducing resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin. However, an expert committee dismissed these concerns,
Belgium process them into intermediate products for antistatic coatings, for example, sensors for gas detection and electrode material for batteries and,
Number crunch 12,000%The potential rise in India's nuclear capacity, from 3. 8 gigawatts today to 470 gigawatts by 2050
and electricity generation sectors, including increased cycling and walking in London and Delhi, India2, 3. The greatest health gains would result from fewer cars
and carry weighty ethical resistance. In Japan, at least, it won't happen. It's unfortunate that these great results won't contribute to animal cloning overall.
On 4 december, the US Department of energy announced $979 million for three demonstration projects to capture carbon dioxide from power plants and store it underground.
Two projects involve fitting carbon capture units to existing coal power plants (in New haven, West virginia and Mobile, Alabama),
and a new power plant will be built near Midland, Texas. Patent reform: The European union has inched closer to a system in
That'endangerment finding'was spurred by a 2007 Supreme court ruling that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles and, by extension, from power plants and other sources.
or a scaled-back climate bill that focuses on power plants and possibly on other major industrial sources of greenhouse-gas emissions.
At some point, it will follow up with a regulatory proposal that is likely to focus on power plants and other major industrial sources.
2001 papers announcing the draft sequence of the human genome. 1, 968 Number of authors on 2010 paper of initial results from the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
However, a complete switch from a local fee system to a national tax may face resistance from local governments;
in which two haploid cells from a single fungus each with one copy of the genome fuse to form the diploid fruiting body (the truffle),
pathogen resistance and hormone signalling. Annotation of the Arabidopsis genome the linking of biological data to sequence information is considered now among the highest quality of all sequenced genomes.
less than 100,000 hectares of those were in the agricultural powerhouse that is the EU. Nature looks at the reasons why so few GM CROPS have been approved in Europe,
but because it contains marker genes that confer resistance to the antibiotics kanamycin and neomycin.
Breeders of GM CROPS use antibiotic-resistance markers to spot which plants have incorporated successfully transgenes. They attach the antibiotic-resistance gene onto the desired trait genes,
and then treat the transgenic seedlings with antibiotics, which kills those plants that haven't taken up the foreign genes.
Environmental groups and some countries have had longstanding concerns about the risk of genes spreading from crops to bacteria and increasing bacterial antibiotic resistance.
and concluded that the risk of transfer of antibiotic resistance from plants to bacteria was remote,
That position was restated in a broader safety assessment of antibiotic-resistance markers, published by EFSA's GMO
and that introducing genes that confer resistance to antibiotics that are used, for example, to treat multiply drug-resistant tuberculosis simply isn't a good idea.
Modification technologies developed since then allow the use of alternatives to antibiotic-resistance markers, or allow such markers to be spliced out of the plant before cultivation.
Indeed, although the EU, the World health organization and many health bodies accept that the risk of transfer of antibiotic resistance seems low
they have called for antibiotic-resistance markers in GMOS to be phased out. More broadly, other experts say that much more publicly funded research on GMOS would lead to greater public confidence in risk assessments,
Hookworms and some other parasitic nematodes have shown signs of resistance to albendazole, the current treatment approved by the World health organization.
and calls for further research including on the growing resistance of weeds to glyphosate. See go. nature. com/ddcpba for more.
Pest resistance is a really promising and important application for genetic selection because there are a lot of health problems in developing countries that have been linked to the spraying of pesticides.
and power plants under the 27-nation European union (EU) trading scheme fell by 11%in 2009, according to preliminary,
The project would supply 3 gigawatts of wind power. Business watch Brushing off what may have been a seasonal blip late last year,
Electric-vehicle companies led the charge, with Better Place a company based in Palo alto, California,
that builds infrastructure for electric-vehicle networks raising $350 million in a January funding round.
Linking offshore wind farms together with an undersea cable down the US east coast could produce a reliable supply of grid electricity,
The two South african forms are able to overcome the effects of two resistance genes in wheat that normally prevent stem rust from taking hold.
The discovery of the new forms marks the first time that the stem rust fungus with virulence against key genetic resistance has moved south of its origins in Uganda
making it able to overcome the Sr24 wheat gene that usually confers resistance to the pathogen.
and is able to overcome the effects of the resistance gene Sr31 as well as Sr24. The fungus and its variants are now able to overcome at least 32 of around 50 resistance genes, according to Ravi Singh, a plant geneticist and pathologist at the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre.
An international project that is researching resistance to wheat rust led by Cornell University, is developing new tools to help defeat the pathogen.
Sarah Davidson, associate director of the project, says that it will have isolated eight new resistance genes by the end of the year.
The project is also investigating why rice, the only cereal that is not damaged by the rust,
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